Science: Slow Death

When the radio beeps of Sputnik I died away in late October, most of the
world's Sputnik watchers, official and unofficial, lost track of it.
But not Engineer-Astronomer John Daniel Kraus, professor of electrical
engineering at Ohio State University, who worked out a clever system of
his own for watching beepless Sputniks. Last week Professor Kraus
asserted that he had observed the disintegration and presumptive death
of Sputnik I.

As a free Sputnik detector, Dr. Kraus, 47, uses the 20-megacycle radio
time signal sent out 24 hours a day by the National Bureau of
Standards' station WWV near Washington, D.C....